Artificial β-defensin based on a minimal defensin template
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Nikolinka ANTCHEVA*, Francesca MORGERA*, Luisa CREATTI*, Lisa VACCARI†, Ulrike PAG‡, Sabrina PACOR*, Yechiel SHAI§, Hans-Georg SAHL‡ and Alessandro TOSSI*1 *Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Giorgieri Street 1, 34127 Trieste, Italy, †ELETTRA Synchrotron Light Laboratory, Area Science Park, 34012 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy, ‡Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, University of Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany, and §Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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تاریخ انتشار 2009